That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.

  • -- George Stigler 斯蒂格勒

随着我们的科学变得越来越抽象,这门学科对经济学家失去了一度的吸引力,但随着科学社会学提出的问题变得更加突出,我的兴趣甚至变得更加浓厚。

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Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened.

私有化进程缓慢。当非常大的事情发生时,比如私有化,历史学家和经济学家喜欢认为你一定有非常大的原因。事情不是这样发生的。

Whatever may be the distribution of uncertainty among economists, the public only gets to hear from those who have certain opinions.

无论经济学家之间的不确定性分布如何,公众只能听到那些持有某些观点的人的意见。

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

严格地说,历史是对问题的研究;答案研究属于人类学和社会学。

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.

我一直很喜欢画画,但是这些天我总是找不到时间做很多事情。

I wasn't a great student; I was lazy. But when I was in sociology class, I listened.

我不是一个好学生;我很懒。但是当我在上社会学课时,我听。

I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.

我看不出我有什么理由去挠石头,或者浪费时间抛光青铜。

To say that science is logical is like saying that a painting is paint.

说科学是合乎逻辑的,就像说一幅画就是一幅画。

I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

我想你会发现它比那要复杂一些。